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A few days after evacuation, but before they had locked down the flooded streets due to help prevent looting, I made my way back on a blowup kayak to pick up a few items of importance. Unfortunately my home had already been looted, but due to the…

Harvey gave us a bit of a break on August 27th, and as I did not have television service, I went out for a wade to see how things were looking. I took this image from on top of a bridge on Kirkwood running over Terry Hershey park... normally a dry…

Normally water comes in and recedes within a few days, but due to the damn release, my home was flooded for weeks with no yard available for demolition materials, and no way to get trucks in and out. We couldn't start the remediation until September…

There are a lot of images showing the flooding and post-Harvey destruction... but what about starting from scratch in a vacant house? I was starving for a home-cooked meal and a sense of normalcy. I'm not sure how I could have survived without…

I was able to evacuate with my two dogs, but left my birds behind with plenty of food and water as at the time I didn't know where I was going and thought it would be less stressful for them. A few days later I was able to return with an inflatable…

The Cajun Army started evacuating people on my street after Harvey had moved on, but the day the damn waters started being released... I was celebrating the end of the storm as my home was still high and dry, but not for long! They warned the water…

There is a pool about 3' below the surface. The 2 chrome arches toward the back is the ladder from a pool. As you can see, the Rubber Ducky with chlorine tablets never left it post.

A flood victim and two of her children tell the story of their home flooding in Braes Heights.

Red Cross rescue by helicopter of tenants residing in the Nob Hill apartments along Braeswood, across the street from Braes Bayou.